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Dear @Friendica Admins, for my #Friendica and also my other #fediverse servers, I am looking for a recommended minimum instance #blocklist which contains only domains that contain or distribute illegal or potentially illegal (in Germany/EU, UK or US) content and / or are notorious spammers. I use a combination of the #gardenfence and #oliphant tier0/tier1 lists at the moment which seems okay but is broader than what I described due to the inclusion of very block-friendly sources. I am looking for something really focussing on legality and server security only as a condensed basis. Any recommendations? @Friendica Support
Hello @Else (elsica)
I just block what I stumble over, which is really terrible in taste at least or even borderline criminal.
You can see what I block on this server and on my other server.

Not sure if that is enough for you, it is only a handful of servers, but as long as I don't get any complaints or see anything myself I feel I should not precariously block servers. If I see an advice somewhere here I take that into account, but sometimes also go to check myself.
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@Else (elsica) on the advices floating around I just take into account what sounds like forbidden content in Germany/Switzerland/EU.
@Else (elsica) I do it exactly the same way as @utzer [Friendica]
I personally don't think much of gardenfence and oliphant either, because they uncontrollably take blocks from other servers without checking the reasons.
oliphant doesn't even give the reasons in the list why the instances were blocked and so I can't check myself if a block is justified.
@OldKid This is kinda my problem with it too. It’s an aggregate of sources that seem to shoot very quickly. I want the illegal and unsafe stuff removed, not any further filtering, looks like need to do that myself then.
@Else (elsica)
This is what ME discovered in 1,5 Years of illegal content:

baraag.net
pawoo.net

Probably my instance ist just lucky 😀